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Ganoncrotch said:
Amnesia said:

Not bad. 300K next week ?

The total FY2019 projection is becoming more and more realistic (or less and less unrealistic...)

I see this in each weeks sales releases and I gotta say... I would just be taking a wild guess as to what it's about? You have a graph and timelines but nothing in this post or any of the weekly ones says what the graph is about.

Is it the lifetimes sales of the Switch? for a while I thought it was meant to represent the 3 systems, but I think it's the Switches 3 years on the market, sorry but a graph and posts with no reference to any console or manufacturer is missing a key piece of information I feel.

Maybe I'm just a derp.... but there are plenty of derps on the Internet! Might help if you added the system name to your awesome weekly graphs?

Noted. I will improve it for the next time. Dense views of information like that always seems perfectly clear for the one who creates it obviously...

I am still too much autistic. Accept my apologizes.



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Amnesia said:
Ganoncrotch said:

I see this in each weeks sales releases and I gotta say... I would just be taking a wild guess as to what it's about? You have a graph and timelines but nothing in this post or any of the weekly ones says what the graph is about.

Is it the lifetimes sales of the Switch? for a while I thought it was meant to represent the 3 systems, but I think it's the Switches 3 years on the market, sorry but a graph and posts with no reference to any console or manufacturer is missing a key piece of information I feel.

Maybe I'm just a derp.... but there are plenty of derps on the Internet! Might help if you added the system name to your awesome weekly graphs?

Noted. I will improve it for the next time. Dense views of information like that always seems perfectly clear for the one who creates it obviously...

I am still too much autistic. Accept my apologizes.

No worries man, like I said it could just be me missing the point, but I seen the graph a couple of times but based on you saying about the forecast this week I think I figured what it meant. Really cool to see the absolutely steady stream of sales each year, Nintendo had a perfect plan of when and where to drop their exclusives to keep attention up around the year.

I think for me the Switch has passed over the GC and X360 now into my favourite console of all times, and jointly also my favourite handheld in one move Nintendo have done me a solid in two areas of gaming. can't wait to see their hardware revisions for this machine.



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I had no idea that the sales of the Nintendo Switch were to be so stable, I expected something more at the level of the Wii.
A rapid rise and record sales, but would not believe that they were stable after the third year. But it was not like that, the Switch broke a few records too, but his sales are stable and up, in a gradual and steady evolution, which seems to show a firm and solid console in the market.

The following games will only increase success even more, I believe that the switch did not reach its peak of sales in one semester, I think it should happen by the end of the third and fourth year.

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The next 17 months are gonna be a looong crawl for Xbox

It'll be intriguing to see where its baseline ends up later this year and next, outside of the holidays.

On the flipside, with Mario Maker 2 out with the next weekly numbers and Fire Emblem four weeks after that, Switch should stay above 200k a week for some time to come.



curl-6 said:
Intrinsic said:
  1. Why would switch lose the top spot when the other consoles also aren't getting any big game releases.
  2. I think it's fair to say that there s no way (as it should be expected) that in its 6th year the PS4 should be outselling the switch at $299. Yes, it needs a price drop. That it's even still keeping the gap respectable is an achievement.
  3. And why is everyone forgetting that the PS4/XB1 are currently almost years old? If you guys really want to compare sales... compare them to those consoles 3rd years on the market.

Because PS4 gets big games more regularly than Switch does, basically. Between Smash and Mario Maker 2, a gap of nearly 7 month, Switch had no system-selling games. Hence I thought it'd momentum would suffer more than it has.

What big games did the PS4 get after February that the Switch didn't get?



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Bofferbrauer2 said:
curl-6 said:

Because PS4 gets big games more regularly than Switch does, basically. Between Smash and Mario Maker 2, a gap of nearly 7 month, Switch had no system-selling games. Hence I thought it'd momentum would suffer more than it has.

What big games did the PS4 get after February that the Switch didn't get?

Haven't been keeping track tbh, though I guess it did get CTR this week. Guerss I just got used to PS4 getting AAA games constantly and Switch not.



curl-6 said:

The next 17 months are gonna be a looong crawl for Xbox

It'll be intriguing to see where its baseline ends up later this year and next, outside of the holidays.

On the flipside, with Mario Maker 2 out with the next weekly numbers and Fire Emblem four weeks after that, Switch should stay above 200k a week for some time to come.

In all seriousness here, the baseline should drop to near zero, just like MS did with the original version of the X1 they've undermined anyone with thoughts about buying the current set of machines by showing the upcoming system on the distant horizon, they did it with the X1 by saying that the X1X would fix the issues of no power but now they are claiming that the Scarlett will fix the issues of no games, anyone buying into the X1 console right now is doing so either blind or with the knowledge that the system is on the way out.

I've mentioned this multiple times over the last 2 years, but the X1 has been in a cascade tumbling failure for years/months, given the systems direct competition does everything that it does, but better in every category (with one tiny * for the X1X being more capable of getting to 4k in a handful of titles) but the system has no real selling point outside of the potential that someones mates might be on Xbox live, but given the sales that likelyhood is less and less every single week that passes.

I would predict that by the month of November you are going to see the X1 at sub 30k per week, if not scraping to keep at 20k based on the current decline acceleration. The circling of the drain has sped up, just months ago there was talk of it being able to maintain weekly sales of 85k until it reached the 50m mark, that goal gets less and less likely with each sales data update because each month the system loses around 5k from the weekly sales.



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Ganoncrotch said:
curl-6 said:

The next 17 months are gonna be a looong crawl for Xbox

It'll be intriguing to see where its baseline ends up later this year and next, outside of the holidays.

On the flipside, with Mario Maker 2 out with the next weekly numbers and Fire Emblem four weeks after that, Switch should stay above 200k a week for some time to come.

In all seriousness here, the baseline should drop to near zero, just like MS did with the original version of the X1 they've undermined anyone with thoughts about buying the current set of machines by showing the upcoming system on the distant horizon, they did it with the X1 by saying that the X1X would fix the issues of no power but now they are claiming that the Scarlett will fix the issues of no games, anyone buying into the X1 console right now is doing so either blind or with the knowledge that the system is on the way out.

I've mentioned this multiple times over the last 2 years, but the X1 has been in a cascade tumbling failure for years/months, given the systems direct competition does everything that it does, but better in every category (with one tiny * for the X1X being more capable of getting to 4k in a handful of titles) but the system has no real selling point outside of the potential that someones mates might be on Xbox live, but given the sales that likelyhood is less and less every single week that passes.

I would predict that by the month of November you are going to see the X1 at sub 30k per week, if not scraping to keep at 20k based on the current decline acceleration. The circling of the drain has sped up, just months ago there was talk of it being able to maintain weekly sales of 85k until it reached the 50m mark, that goal gets less and less likely with each sales data update because each month the system loses around 5k from the weekly sales.

I can see Xbone falling below 40k over the next few months, but sub-30k? I dunno, that just seems too low. That feels more like something that'd happen next year after Scarlet's fully unveiled.



NS up, PS4 down. NS lead significant again, plus NS is now clearly showing it can more stably keep high sales even in dead periods. PS4 still very strong, but it starts showing its age. Price cut in Autumn will be necessary, not optional, as Sony needs to keep the PS brand strong and healthy, and even after PS5 launch, PS4 will need to fill the PS entry level ofter for probably two years or more. A price cut next year, close to PS5 launch, could disturb it, this Autumn is the right moment.



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DroidKnight said:
Even these threads are dying. Where is the wow PS4 is still doing great considering it's age

Most of them have been banned.